The 1:50, 000 topographic map gives a more general picture of the ground features than a basic map. It shows settlements, houses, roads, cultivated areas, waterways, cutting areas, mires, rock exposures, & relief. One map sheet covers an area of 30 x 40 km & one centimetre corresponds to 500 metres on the ground. The 1:50, 000 topographic map is also an ideal complement to nautical charts as it provides useful information about the land areas adjacent to waterways. For example, all Finnish sea areas are covered by 1:50, 000 topographic map sheets. ...

The United States is still typically conceived of as an offshoot of Engl&, with our history unfolding east to west beginning with the first English settlers in Jamestown. This view overlooks the significance of America`s Hispanic past. With the profile of the United States increasingly Hispanic, the importance of recovering the Hispanic dimension to our national story has never been greater. This absorbing narrative begins with the explorers & conquistadores who planted Spain`s first colonies in Puerto Rico, Florida, & the Southwest. Missionaries & rancheros carry Spain`s expansive impulse into the late eighteenth century, settling California, mapping the American interior to the Rockies, & charting the Pacific coast. During the nineteenth century Anglo-America expands west under the banner of ” Manifest Destiny” & consolidates control through war with Mexico. In the Hispanic resurgence that follows, it is the peoples of Latin America who overspread the continent, from the Hispanic heartland in the West to major cities such as Chicago, Miami, New York, & Boston. The United States clearly has a Hispanic present & future. And here is its Hispanic past, presented with characteristic insight & wit by one of our greatest historians. ...

A bittersweet, funny, sad story of friendship, first love, & heartache, all rolled into one spellbinding tale, from a stunning ...

The Heinemann Plays series offers contemporary drama & classic plays in durable classroom editions. Many have large casts & an equal mix of boy & girl parts. The television play Our Day Out asks what can a group of back-street kids from Liverpool expect from life beyond a rare day out? ...

1976: Peggy Hillcoat is eight. She spends her summer camping with her father, playing her beloved record of The Railway Children & listening to her mother`s grand piano, but her pretty life is about to change. Her survivalist father, who has been stockpiling provisions for the end which is surely coming soon, takes her from London to a cabin in a remote European forest. There he tells Peggy the rest of the world has disappeared. Her life is reduced to a piano which makes music but no sound, a forest where all that grows is a means of survival. & a tiny wooden hut that is Everything. ...

This is a completely new edition of one of the most outstanding recipe compendiums of Asian homecooking. First published in 1987, the book covers dishes from Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thail&, Vietnam, India, Sri Lanka, Burma, & the Philippines. The 210 recipes are unusual yet authentic, & are a welcome addition to the standard repertoir published in cookbooks on Asian food. The extraordinary collection of traditional & contemporary dishes, developed by well-known home chefs & bestselling cookbook authors, include Coriander Chicken, Vietnamese Coconut Chicken, Buah Keluak Sambal, Foochow Pork Ribs, Sambal Lengkong, Baked Cheese Prawns, Fried Brijal Curry, Cashew Nut Curry, String Hopper Pilau, Babingka, Mee Jawa, Shin Beef Soup, Soya Bean Nest Soup, Baked Seafod Rice, Coconut Chiffon Jelly, Sri Lankan Love Cake, & Coconut Bread Pudding. Our Favourite Recipes is designed as a companion volume to My Favourite Recipes, Ellice Handy`s classic cookbook. ...

Global warming means that our coastlines change & areas of the world disappear; it means that habitats vanish, ecosystems are unbalanced, climate zones shift, & that animal & plant life disappear. The photographs in this book illustrate the wealth that is at stake. Unforgettable images reveal the unexpected, exhilarating beauty of the world`s carefully balanced ecosystems, & the people whose traditional way of life is in tune with nature. ...

“ Our Fragile Earth” is a collection of thirty postcards looking at ‘the beauty of a planet under pressure’ from New International Publications Ltd. From coral reefs to the Arctic ice, the world’s finely-balanced ecosystems are creaking under the weight of human activity. This collection of postcards turns the camera lens on the world itself, looking at landscapes wide, great & minute; there is a postcard here for any & all occasions. ...

` The best spy novel set in wartime London. A masterpiece` Edward Wilson, author of A Very British Ending London, 1941. The city is in blackout, besieged by nightly air raids from Germany. Two strangers are about to meet. Between them they may alter the course of the war. While the Blitz has united the nation, there is an enemy hiding in plain sight. A group of British citizens is gathering secret information to aid Hitler`s war machine. Jack Hoste has become entangled in this treachery, but he also has a particular mission: to locate the most dangerous Nazi agent in the country. Hoste soon receives a promising lead. Amy Strallen, who works in a Mayfair marriage bureau, was once close to this elusive figure. Her life is a world away from the machinations of Nazi sympathisers, yet when Hoste pays a visit to Amy`s office, everything changes in a heartbeat. Breathtakingly tense & trip-wired with surprises, Our Friends in Berlin is inspired by true events. It is a story about deception & loyalty
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Our Future Earth vividly describes how the decisions made about the environment in the next decades will affect the next 100, 000 years of life on the planet, & shows how far todays environmental debate is overlooking crucial long-term evidence. By considering the Earths history over millions of years, & not merely over the last couple of centuries, this book changes our understanding. It draws on geological evidence to show that the greatest immediate threat to humans will not be global warming, but global cooling. & the extent of human control over the environment now makes the direction of climate change a greater matter of choice than the public realises. This lucid book will prompt climate sceptics, activists & everyone in between to think again about our future Earth, because the real consequences of our behaviour are set to be far more dramatic than we expect. ...